Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical interpretations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019. Song of Solomon.

Morrison, Toni.

Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism.

Domestic fiction, American.

African American families in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Michigan--In literature.

Michigan.

Physical Description:

vi, 216 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2009.

Summary:

The mythic patterns Toni Morrison explores in her third novel converge on the transformation of protagonist Milkman Dead. Song of Solomon traces Milkman's journey from spiritual death to an understanding and acceptance of personal responsibility, his liberation symbolized by his discovery of the ability to fly. Caught between his father's materialism and his aunt's sense of family and history, Milkman moves to a greater awareness of his identity and previously untapped spiritual power. This new collection of full-length critical essays includes an introductory essay by literary scholar Harold Bloom, a chronology, a bibliography, an index, and notes about the contributors.

Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations, a series of more than 100 volumes, presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels, and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and The Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Don DeLillo's White Noise. Each volume opens with an introductory essay and editor's note by Harold Bloom and includes a bibliography, a chronology of the writer's life and works, and notes on the contributors. Taken together, Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations provides a comprehensive critical guide to the most vital and influential works of the Western literary tradition.

Contents:

Song of Solomon / Trudier Harris

Song of Solomon: reality and mythos within the community / Patrick Bryce Bjork

Quiet as it's kept: shame, trauma, and race in the novels of Toni Morrison / J. Brooks Bouson

Song of Solomon, narrative identity, and the Faulknerian intertext / John N. Duvall

Justice and citizenship in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Dana Medoro

Toni Morrison's revisionary "nature writing": Song of Solomon and the blasted pastoral / Wes Berry

William Faulkner reprised: isolation in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Lorie Watkins Fulton

"Through a glass darkly": typology in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Judy Pocock

Signifying circe in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Judith Fletcher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206) and index.

ISBN:

9781604133929

1604133929

OCLC:

277472200